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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Three things can not hide for long: the moon, the sun, and the choices we regret.

A riddle is like a small axe with which to split a large log of truth.

— African Proverb

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

— Virginia Woolf

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

There is a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

— Maya Angelou

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

— Oscar Wilde

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

— Plato

In war, truth is the first casualty.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

— William Shakespeare

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

— Abraham Lincoln

Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

— John Keats

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

— Samuel Johnson

Murder will out.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

— Leo Tolstoy

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

— Buddha

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it made enlargements too.

— Alexander Pope

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when a man is afraid of the light.

— Plato

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

— C. S. Lewis

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

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